Maggie Haberman Reveals Trump ‘Called Me The Other Day’ To Rant About Cases — Here’s How That Went

New York Times correspondent and CNN analyst Maggie Haberman revealed that former President Donald Trump “called me the other day” to rant about his court cases — but it didn’t go the way he might have wanted it to.

It has been a stunning couple of weeks for Trump in court. Trump attended an appeals court hearing at which his attorney argued that a president could order Seal Team Six to assassinate a political rival and not face prosecution unless he were impeached and convicted first.

Then he engaged in courtroom fireworks in the fraud case brought by Attorney General Letitia James and presided over by Judge Arthur Engoron, and made a spectacle of himself at the latest trial for defaming E. Jean Carroll — the woman a court has already determined he defamed and sexually abused.

But it turns out he tried to bend Haberman’s ear before all of that, and she refused to report on much of it. On this week’s edition of CNN’s King Charles, Haberman revealed to co-hosts Gayle King and Charles Barkley that despite his anger over her book, Trump called her “the other day” to talk about his “attacks on judges” and about Ms. Carroll:

KING: You wrote a book about him. Do you have a rapport with him still? You seem to have had a rapport with him. HABERMAN: Well, I covered him and, you know, I dealt with him a lot as a subject who I covered. He was very angry about the book. I had a lot of reporting in it that made him very upset and he has continued to vent that upset. But the way he is is he will always engage with a reporter eventually if he sees some reason to. And so he called me the other day.

KING: He called you the other day?

HABERMAN: Yes, for the first time in a long time. And I wrote him —

KING: To say what?

HABERMAN: He wanted to talk about these cases and these trials that he was going to. Because I was writing a story about how, you know, politics in the courts were going to converge again in January. This was a couple of weeks ago. And he called to say that he wanted to attend all of these trials and to talk, you know, again about his attacks on the judge and the civil case and to talk about E. Jean Carroll, much of which I didn’t report on.

But he thinks he’s his own best comms director and his own best defender, and you’ll see more of that I suspect.

In the article in question, Haberman spent several paragraphs describing things Trump said, but only directly quoted nine words in all.

Watch above via CNN’s King Charles.